How Do You Stay Informed About Current Events?
• Project Censored Yearbook covers U.S. media Watch the news. This seems simple, but it often isn’t. News is becoming more and more biased to all different interests. The safest way to make sure you’re getting the whole story is to watch several different stations. Don’t limit yourself to the nightly news, watch 24 hour news stations as often as you can. • MediaLens Newspeak covers UK media Make sure you get a paper. Reading your local paper is great for staying current on issues close to you. Try to also get a paper from your closest metro area, as they often report on your state. Finally, subscribe to nationally circulated paper like the New York Times. With these you can get updates on whats happening across the country and often around the world. • Subscribe to news and opinion magazines. Once you’re up on all the issues, it’s nice to get a broader idea of them. A great way to do this is by reading news magazines, like Time, The Nation or Newsweek. These have many opinion essays, a
